{"id":16261,"date":"2026-05-23T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/convoy-sets-off-for-gaza-from-north-africa-to-protest-israels-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:40:07","slug":"convoy-sets-off-for-gaza-from-north-africa-to-protest-israels-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/convoy-sets-off-for-gaza-from-north-africa-to-protest-israels-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Convoy sets off for Gaza from North Africa to protest Israel\u2019s blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/06\/10\/6d3a34a3-fbbc-49ed-b35a-c113788ff044_34ffcff4.jpg?itok=kWL5YXCa&amp;v=1749523636\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A convoy of buses and private cars departed for Gaza from Tunisia\u2019s capital on Monday as part of efforts to spotlight Israel\u2019s blockade on humanitarian aid to the territory, even as Israeli authorities stopped a high-profile flotilla from landing there.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The overland effort \u2013 organised independently but moved up to coincide with the flotilla \u2013 is made up of activists, lawyers and medical professionals from North Africa.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It plans to cross Tunisia, Libya and Egypt before reaching Rafah, the border crossing with Egypt that has remained largely closed since Israel\u2019s military took&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3313757\/convoy-sets-gaza-north-africa-protest-against-israels-blockade?utm_source=rss_feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convoy of buses and private cars departed for Gaza from Tunisia\u2019s capital on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1156,1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunisia","category-1221"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}